The following is a list of recommended sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international and foreign levels of government.
Federal Government: General Information
- Basic Collection for Federal Depository Libraries
- Explore Government Documents (University of Michigan)
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
- MetaLib: A federated search engine of U.S. Federal government databases
- Federal Agency Directory (Louisiana State University)
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Other Federal Courts
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- The White House
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- Code of Federal Regulations (FDsys Access)
- Congress.org [Searchable directories and current awareness] (Capital Advantage)
- The Federal Register (FDsys Access)
- Regulations.gov (Regulations nearly 300 federal agencies. Submit a comment on a regulation )
- Federal Register 2.0, (Citizen-friendly Federal Register )
- FDsys (Federal Digital System, GPO)
- FDsys/GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource list
- THOMAS: In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress
- Government Resources: Links to congressional information from official and non-official sources (Library of Congress THOMAS)
- Federal Tax Forms and Publications
State Information
- Government Resources on the Web: States (University of Arizona)
- State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute)
- State Government Collections - Try one of the following:
- American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (LawSource.com)
- State and Local Government on the Net (HelloMetro Group)
- State List: The Electronic Source of State Publications (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- State Government (USA.gov)
- State of Illinois Home Page
- Illinois General Assembly (includes Illinois Compiled Statutes, links to House and Senate floor debates)
- Illinois Administrative Code
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- Illinois Courts
- Illinois Tax Forms and Publications
International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
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EUROPA: The Official Website of the European Union (EU)
- Foreign National Governments/International Governmental Organizations/Non-governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
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Organization of American States (OAS)
- U.S. Department of State [see also U.S. State Department Archive]
- United Nations (UN)
- globalEDGE (Michigan State University, collection of web-based international business resources and much more)
- U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library (Department of Commerce, international trade-related documents )
Statistical Resources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
- Fedstats [Statistics and information produced by U.S. federal government agencies]
- National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences)
- National Center for Health Statistics (Department of Health and Human Services)
- Statistical Resources (University of North Texas)
- U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Census NEW American FactFinder
Additional Resources
- Research Guide - U.S. Government (DePaul University Libraries)
- Research Guide - Illinois & Chicago (DePaul University Libraries)
- The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Western Illinois University)
- USA.gov (Search engine for government information)
- PURL Information Page (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- DRAGNET (Uses a Google Customized Search Engine on selected, free law-related Web resources)
- CLL Legal Research Engine (Cornell Law School - Legal research guides, selected legal web, legal blogs)
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